A sampling of facts and figures compiled a decade after the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States

Total costs appropriated by Congress for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan through the end of Fiscal Year 2011: $1.26 trillion

Amount spent on war in Iraq: $797.3 billion

Amount spent on war in Afghanistan: $459.8 billion

Number of U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq: 4,474

Number killed in Afghanistan: 1,760

Number of people, including first responders, killed in terror attacks on World Trade Center: 2,753

Date the last victim of the WTC attacks was added to the death count: June 17, 2011

Number of veterans who have returned home from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan: 1.25 million

Percentage of those treated at VA medical facilities since returning: 52 percent

Cost of their treatment: $32.6 billion

Days after 9/11 that the neoconservative think tank, the Project for the New American Century, published a letter demanding that President George W. Bush invade Iraq, “even if evidence does not link Iraq directly” to 9/11 attacks: 9

Number of days after 9/11 that President George W. Bush signed Afghanistan War Plan and urged Pentagon to prepare for an invasion of Iraq as well: 6

Amount U.S. taxpayers will pay for proposed Department of Defense budget for Fiscal Year 2011: $553 billion

Number of elementary school teachers who could be paid for one year with the same amount of money: 8.1 million

Amount Orange County taxpayers will contribute to that number: $1.6 billion

Number of local elementary school teachers who could be paid for one year with that amount of money: 26,228

Number of FBI special agents working on terrorism matters in 2001: 1,351

Number of FBI special agents working on terrorism matters in 2004: 2,398

Number of terror attacks against U.S. targets planned by Muslims in 2010: 10

Number planned by non-Muslims: 20

Number of people killed worldwide due to terrorist attacks in 2009: 14,971

Number who were U.S. citizens: 25

Approximate number of murders in the United States since 9/11: 150,000

Number of mosques in the U.S. in 2000: 1,209

Number in 2011: 1,925

Number of proposals to build mosques in the U.S. that have met with community resistance over the past three years: 37

Number of those in Florida: 2

Percent of Muslims in 2011 who said that being a Muslim in the U.S. has become more difficult since 9/11: 55

Number of days after 9/11 that the U.S. started bombing Afghanistan: 26

Number of days after 9/11 that President George W. Bush signed the Patriot Act: 45

Percent of Americans who said in a 2001 Pew Research Poll that it was necessary to give up civil liberties to curb terrorism: 55

Year in which the Federal Emergency Management Administration introduced a coloring book for kids called “A Scary Thing Happened” that featured an image of a jet plane headed for the smoldering World Trade Center towers on its cover: 2003

Year that coloring book was removed from FEMA’s website: 2009

Year that Really Big Coloring Books released its coloring book called “We Shall Never Forget 9/11: A Kid’s Guide to Freedom,” which features drawings of U.S. soldiers taking aim at Osama bin Laden, while he uses a woman in a burqa as a human shield: 2011